Usually means: Discrimination based on someone's age.
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  1. ageist: Merriam-Webster
  2. ageist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ageist: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ageist: Wordnik
  5. ageist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ageist: Wiktionary
  7. ageist: Dictionary.com
  8. Ageist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. ageist: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. ageist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. ageist: Medical dictionary

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  1. ageist: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.
noun:  A person who behaves in an ageist manner.

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